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Is Woodhead serious? The CEO has been working on the waste plan for months? Firstly it isn't her job to do that, it is the policy teams. Her last foray into consent writing (wetland destruction) didn't go that well did It? Secondly the waste plan was made operative in 1997 and by law needs to be updated every 10 years. Orc, you are breaking the law. Get on with it. The ego of Woodhead is incredible and he has achieved nothing. He's there to warm a seat and collect his salary...

I'm sure like all other jobs has a sentence in the contract that goes like this, 'any other tasking's/task's or jobs' or words to that effect. Sure it may be the CEO's draft but it isn't her position to sign off on the final draft and release it. If Woodhead is a seat warmer he is just like Cull and some of the other councillors at the DCC. IMHO anything that challenges Cull is great because he thinks he can only appear for glory photos and never have I seen him stand up to be grilled.

My experience with the ORC has been frustrating as they do not listen to those who pay for them to be there. If they do hear they ignore. Either way they are a law unto themselves. We need fresh blood just like we did for central government - people who truly care about the environment and people.

As a former Otago region ratepayer, i don't enjoy the spectacle of this kind of public squabbling. Mr Woodhead enjoys a ratepayer-funded remuneration package of $130,964 (ORC annual report, 2017-18). Mr Cull receives a package totalling $146,732, likewise ratepayer-funded. I expect these well-paid men to be working on solving the problems, not spitting at each others organisations through the Press.